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The Timex Speedpass Watch
RedWolves2 writes "Timex Corporation is developing a watch which incorporates Speedpass technology embedded into it. McDonalds has also partnered with Speedpass with 400 stores in the Chicago area that accept speedpass. Now you can order a value meal like this "You will serve me a Big Mac Meal with a Coke!" (While waving your hand like a Jedi Knight using the Jedi Mind trick)."
"You will serve me a Big Mac Meal with a Coke!" (While waving your hand like a Jedi Knight using the Jedi Mind trick)."
How is this different than what I do already?
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when your watch gets "declined" at the line at mcdonalds. sad, staring at those fries, quietly asking the 15 year old in the yelow visor if you can just wave it one more time.
yes i run a goth/punk/emo porn site.
"These are not the fries you are looking for"
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You really go to McDonalds? Who the heck eats at McDonalds?
Ever try to tune in an AM radio in a car at a Mobile Gas station that employs Speedpass.
At stations sporting three rows of pumps all equipped with these infernal electro-magnetic emmision Fast Pass coils so much noise is broadcast that AM Radio becomes pure noise.
This is true even on good radios with all digital modern tuning.
Its disgusting. This crap should all be made illegal.
I have a RIGHT to receive radio without deliberate interference from abusive technologies that violate my space.
I hope people will band together to petition against these eternally broadcasting 24 hours a day illegal radio emmitters... also known as "Fast Pass sensor equipment"
Arrrrrghhhh!
I love AM talk radio... I can listen to CLEVELAND and NASHVILLE and MONTREAL clearly at night in boston suburbs in my car.
But nothing at all comes in once I drive too close to Fast Pass equipment. I understand radiation should diminish at R^3 (cube root) but geeeez these fast pass things seem more insidious and powerful than you think.
The most insidious and EVIL pulse reader passivly scans the ROM chips in 2001 tires... and does it at the us-canadian borders (soon or already).
The codes exist for product control and are readable from many feet from the tires, but the US gov uses them because Liscense plates are too easy to swap-steal-create.
And wait till they start using passive pulses to read the sub-grain-of-rice bio id rom implated originally in dogs but soon applicable for enemies of the US federal governement on probation.
Its only a few years away... just you wait.
We need to closely control this slippery slope of eroding rights and spying on our lives and destruction of our AM radio air space.
...you'll not only get a charge report but also a calories/sodium/fat report. Your doctor will be automatically alerted if your visit frequency exceeds 5/day or if you're likely to get RSI (aka tennis elbow or nowadays JWS (jedi wave syndrome). Your undertaker will be informed when he has to rent a crane. You mom will know you already had your share of of caffeine when you show up that sunday for coffe and cookies.
The funny thing is the same people start hyperventilating when something about an ID card is pondered upon...
Use The Source, Luke!
'This is not the Happy Meal I ordered'
'This is not the Happy Meal you ordered!'
'You will make me a Cheeseburger Happy Meal'
'We will make you a Cheeseburger Happy Meal!'
'You will not forget the toy'
'We will not forget the toy!'
The Jedi Mind Trick surely could work wonders at McDonalds...unfortunately, at Wendy's they employ mainly Hutts.
Great! Now I'll be able to buy speed faster than ever! I may not even have to stop the car - just lower the window and my man can toss it in as I roll by.
I can't wait until weedpass comes out next year!
This sounds great, just so long as they use it to track my every movement. I'm getting sick and tired of friends, family, and government agents not knowing where I am every second of my life.
Thank you Speedpass!
Anything you can do, I can do meta.
I assume it's related to the technology that we have at my college. We just wave our student ID in front of this reader and it unlocks the door. And if the speedpass technology is related to our cards, then I absolutely don't trust it. Why? This is a small college in Wisconsin. When I visited UC-Berkeley in CA, I accidentally discovered when walking past the doors that my student ID opened any dorm on the Berkeley campus. Students at Berkeley even have to use keys to get in the buildings (I think the reader was for the disabled), but I (and every person at my WI college) have a skeleton key to the whole place!
Plus it makes the door open automatically, while the real students have to pull it open themselves ;]
But seriously, why should I trust the speedpass et al to be any different?
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